Why do the Caribbean Islands arc?

Monday, August 20, 2012 - 12:50 in Earth & Climate

The Caribbean islands have been pushed east over the last 50 million years, driven by the movement of the Earth's viscous mantle against the more rooted South American continent, reveals new research by geophysicists from USC.

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